GALA Theatre Artistic Director to Speak at June 19 Breakfast
• June 2, 2025

On Thursday, June 19, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by playwright Gustavo Ott, artistic director of GALA Hispanic Theatre. Admission to the event, at 1310 […]

Bucoy-Calavan’s Vision: Choral Arts as the Ambassador Chorus
• May 29, 2025

Along with excerpts from (as a social media post put it) “all the choral bangers” — Handel’s “Messiah,” Beethoven’s Ninth, the Mozart, Brahms and Verdi Requiems and Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms” […]

Last Chance: ‘Akira Kurosawa Explains…’ at Woolly Mammoth
• May 27, 2025

As one waits, seated, for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of “Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)” to begin, stills from Kurosawa films […]

Constellation Theatre Company’s ‘Head Over Heels’
• May 19, 2025

Do you need to be a Go-Go’s fan to fall head over heels for Constellation Theatre’s Company’s “Head Over Heels,” at Source Theatre through June 1? Forced to choose between […]

Season Finale at Dance Loft on 14: ‘Muse’
• May 15, 2025

As the National Portrait Gallery’s second choreographer-in-residence — Dana Tai Soon Burgess was the first — Diana Movius creates dance pieces inspired by the works on view at the gallery, […]

Restaurants’ Pickle: Inflation, Initiative 82, ICE Checks 
• May 12, 2025

Mayor Bowser Aims to Repeal Tipped-Wage Initiative To eliminate one of several challenges faced by Washington, D.C., restaurant owners, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on May 5 that her fiscal 2026 […]

Friday Art Walk, Saturday Carousel Day at Glen Echo Park
• May 1, 2025

The first weekend in May is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser at Glen Echo Park, the historic amusement park on the C&O Canal in Maryland — originally a Chautauqua Assembly — that […]

Marie Bucoy-Calavan of Choral Arts Is May 22 Breakfast Speaker
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On Thursday, May 22, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by Dr. Marie Bucoy-Calavan, artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Admission to the […]

Guiding the Capital Jewish Museum’s Outreach: Bea Gurwitz
• April 28, 2025

During the nation’s centennial year, 1876, with President Ulysses S. Grant in attendance, Adas Israel (now in Cleveland Park) dedicated the first purpose-built synagogue in Washington, D.C. The timing was […]

An ‘Electro-Acoustic’ Opera at the Kennedy Center
• April 17, 2025

“Passion, obsession, betrayal, love, death. The story of Steve Jobs is animated by big, human thematics that resonate throughout opera history,” said composer Mason Bates. “Sometimes folks will suggest similar […]